Reply To: EnergyXT Sub host VST and midi FX

Thanks for your suggestions, kim, but, yes, I think you are missing something here. I think if you had a little familiarity with how things work in other DAWs, it would help some. It’s something I noticed in some of the other threads, too, but no matter for now. But all I’m really trying to do is what every other damn DAW allows these days.

You see, I don’t want to be making workarounds here — no copying clips and having VSTi on two tracks, etc, etc. In fact, that creates something much different than when you blend instruments and FX together on one track with one output. Besides, I’m really finished with the whole workaround monkey business.

The other bit — yes, many FX, namely here the Fretted Synth collection and related types, will take the instrument audio input and create a MIDI track, then output that to track. Of course, Podium won’t let the MIDI be recorded, as usual.

So one solution is to use a subhost, where I can do many of these things within it, without Podium’s knowledge or interference. I’ll try to get the ADM you mentioned. The last drum unit I tried, Podium would only allow the kit to be recorded in mono or stereo, all the parts mixed into one. You see, you can’t do the most basic things, such as compress your snare or similar work with the kick if your DAW shoves everything together and won’t map the unit’s multiple outs. That’s just plain crazy. So far I’ve managed to download the much older version of the energyXT sequencer/subhost and, since they said the older version works in Podium, will try that one.

Anyone have any other subhosts that are known to work without trouble in Podium???